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Brocklehurst's textbook of geriatric medicine and gerontology

Howard Fillit; Kenneth Rockwood; K. W Woodhouse; J. C Brocklehurst (John Charles)

Philadelphia, PA Saunders/Elsevier c2010

Localização: EE - Escola de Enfermagem    (618.97 B864 7.ed. ) e outros locais(Acessar)

  • Título:
    Brocklehurst's textbook of geriatric medicine and gerontology
  • Autor: Howard Fillit; Kenneth Rockwood; K. W Woodhouse; J. C Brocklehurst (John Charles)
  • Assuntos: Geriatrics; GERIATRIA; SAÚDE DO IDOSO; ENVELHECIMENTO; Gerontology; Geriatrics; Aging
  • Notas: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  • Descrição: Introduction: aging, frailty, and geriatric medicine -- The epidemiology of aging -- The future of old age -- Evolution theory and the mechanisms of aging -- Methodological problems of research in older people -- Biology of aging -- Genetic mechanisms of aging -- Cellular mechanisms of aging -- Physiology of aging -- A clinico-mathematical model of aging -- The premature aging syndrome Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria: insights into normal aging -- Connective tissues and aging -- Clinical immunology: immune senescence and the acquired immune deficiency of aging -- Effects of aging on the cardiovascular system -- Age-related changes in the respiratory system -- Neurologic signs in the elderly -- Geriatirc gastroenterology: overview -- Aging of the urinary tract -- Bone and joint aging -- Aging and the endocrine system -- Aging and the blood -- Aging and the skin -- The pharmacology of aging -- Antiaging medicine -- The neurobiology of aging: free radical stress and metabolic pathways -- Allostasis and allostatic overload in the context of aging -- Neuroendocrinology of aging -- Normal cognitive aging -- The aging personality and self: diversity and health issues -- Successful aging: the centenarians -- Social gerontology -- Productive aging -- Social vulnerability in old age -- Presentation of disease in old age -- Multidimensional geriatric assessment -- Laboratory medicine in geriatrics -- Social assessment of geriatric patients -- Surgery and anesthesia in old age -- Measuring outcomes of multidimensional interventions -- Chronic cardiac failure -- Diagnosis and management of coronary artrery disease -- The frail elderly patient with heart disease -- Hypertension -- Valvular heart disease -- Cardiac arrhythmias -- Syncope -- Vascular surgery -- Venous thromboembolism in the elderly -- Asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease -- Nonobstructive lung disease and thoracic tumors --
    Dementia diagnosis -- Presentation and clinical management of dementia -- Neuropsychology in the diagnosis and treatment of dementia -- Alzheimer's disease -- Vascular cognitive impairment -- Frontotemporal dementia -- Functional psychiatric illness in old age -- The older adult with intellectual disability -- Epilepsy -- Headache and facial pain -- Stroke: epidemiology and pathology -- Stroke: clinical presentation, management and organization of services -- Disorders of the autonomic nervous system -- Parkinsonism and other movement disorders -- Neuromuscular disorders -- Intracranial tumors -- Disorders of the spinal cord and nerve roots -- Infections of the central nervous system -- Metabolic bone disease -- Arthritis in the elderly -- Connective tissue diseases -- Orthopedic geriatrics -- Sarcopenia -- Podiatry -- Geriatric dentistry: maintaining oral health in the geriatric population -- The upper gastrointestinal tract -- The pancreas -- The liver -- Biliary tract diseases -- The small bowel -- The large bowel -- Nutrition in aging -- Obesity -- Diseases of the aging kidney -- Disorders of water, electrolyte, and mineral ion metabolism -- The prostate -- Gynecologic disorders in the elderly -- Cancer of the breast in the elderly -- Adrenal and pituitary disorders -- Disorders of the thyroid -- Disorders of the parathyroid glands -- Diabetes mellitus -- Blood disorders in the elderly -- Geriatric oncology -- Skin disease and old age -- Aging and disorders of the eye -- Disorders of hearing -- Health promotion for the community-living older adult -- Preventive and anticipatory care -- Sexuality in old age --
    Exercise for successful aging -- Injury in older people -- Rehabilitation: therapy techniques -- Rehabilitation: general principles -- Geriatric pharmacotherapy and polypharmacy -- Impaired mobility -- Falls -- Delirium -- Constipation and fecal incontinence in old age -- Urinary incontinence -- Pressure sores -- Sleep, aging, and late-life insomnia -- Malnutrition in older adults -- The mistreatment and neglect of older people -- Pain in the older adult -- Palliative medicine for the elderly patient -- Ethical issues in geriatric medicine -- The elderly in society: an international perspective -- Geriatrics in Europe -- Geriatrics in North America -- Geriatrics in the rest of the world -- Geriatrics in Latin America -- Long-term care in the United Kingdom -- Institutional long-term care in the United States -- Education in geriatric medicine -- Improving quality of care in the United Kingdom -- Preserving medicare through a "quality" focus -- Managed care for older Americans -- Telemedicine applications in geriatrics.
  • Títulos relacionados: Série:Expert consult. Online and print
  • Editor: Philadelphia, PA Saunders/Elsevier
  • Data de criação/publicação: c2010
  • Formato: xxviii, 1119 p ill. (some col.) 29 cm..
  • Idioma: Inglês
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